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Rereading Is Here! Let's Say It Again. Rereading Is Here!
How much do we love rereading? Let us count the ways…for those days when you just want to spend time with your favorite characters; or when you want to revisit a beloved classic; or maybe you want to brush up on a series before the next installment comes out (we're still waiting, George R.R. Martin and Diana Gabaldon), the list goes on! Rereading is such a core part of many of our readers' lives that having a better way to keep track of the times you've read a book has been your number one feature request. Starting today, that wish has been granted—no more missing out on rereads being counted for your Reading Challenge!
How Do I Start Using the Rereading Feature?
Next time you decide to reread a book that you've already marked as Read on Goodreads, simply mark it as Currently Reading. When you are done, just mark it as Read. You can do this from the Goodreads iOS and Android apps and on Goodreads.com, as well as in the About the Book feature on Kindle (if you have connected your Goodreads and Amazon accounts - click here to connect your accounts). We take care of marking it as a reread for you. Bonus, it will also automatically be included in your Reading Challenge.
Rereading Rolling Out In Stages
While it sounds like a simple thing to add, rereading turned out to be a complex engineering challenge that involved our entire database. To give you a sense of that scope, our 60 million members have added more than 1.7 billion books to their shelves! That's why we're rolling out rereading in stages. So, if you're not seeing it yet, you will soon!
How Do I Know If I Have the New Rereading Feature?
Go to Goodreads.com on desktop, choose a book you have already read, and click Edit on the My Activity area of the Book Page. At the bottom of the review section, you'll see the following:
How Do I Add All The Times I've Reread My Favorite Books?
On Goodreads.com on desktop, use the brand-new "Add read date" button in My Activity on the Book Page to enter when you read the book; then hit save! (You don't have to have a start date, but you must have a finish year for the book to count toward your Reading Challenge.)
What Happens If I've Been Keeping Track of My Rereads With The "Number of Times Read" Option?
If you previously used the "Number of times read" field, don't worry, we've already done the work for you and all your rereads are still there. If you added a number, it automatically shows in the new feature. If you used text, we've included it in the private notes section of your review. Simply click on edit Review, to change any dates or add more information.
I've Been Using Different Editions to Track Rereads, What Happens Now?
Our new rereading feature takes that into account! Rereads are comprehensive of all editions. When you view your review, it will indicate that you have also read another edition and include that in the total count.
Wondering which are the books Goodreads members most love to reread? Here are some of the most revisited books:
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Guys at GR you've got to fix this system. It is unbelievably buggy!!! I am just trying to fix my update on a book that I am currently re-reading, and I feel like all I'm doing is causing grief everytime I update it and the system keeps saying I re-read it twice or something I cancelled (extra dates) keep popping back up again! And I mean grief because I bet my friends are getting an email everytime I do this. I edited this thing more than five times by now!
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It does not work as it should have. In the app it does not mark the end date for the first time i finish reading. The kindle app does not mark it too so i have to fix it manually and then it marks the book as read twice. The app does not show My reading challenge.the books i have read does not appear in the app challenge . And when i mark the book as finished in ur site it is too does not mark the end date so i have to fix it manually.
I only add my books once I've read them, so I haven't seen the bugs related to progress updates, but when I add a reread now and I fill everything out: my rating, review, shelves, and new start and finish dates, hit save and... Everything but the dates save. Every time I have to go back in and add the dates over again and then they will save in that second try. I'm so, so super happy about this addition to GR! (Let's just conquer those bugs now)
Thank you so so much goodreads! I am always getting my friends to sign up for goodreads and the one flaw I always mentioned was the lack of this feature. I'm so happy I can't say that anymore. MERCI :)
Muse-ic wrote: "Thank You!!! The only problem is that sometimes I accidentally click "read" and then when I fix that and actually read it later, is marks it as reread, even though I didn't. I noticed this because ..."I'm having the same problem! I'm not sure how to simply mark a date that a book was "read" without it being categorized as "re-read," I have to open the review again and delete one of the duplicate dates.
If multiple pairs of date boxes showing up there should be an X beside at least one them. Just click on it and should remove them.
Loving the feature! However, there's one small snag: Earlier, when setting the read date of a book to a year when you didn't know the date you read it, it would automatically be set to January 1 of that year. That's weird behavior in itself, and I'm glad the reread functionality lets you set just the year and no date.However, this means that books won't show up in the publication year graph in our stats. Could the publication graph still show books with only a year in its "read date" on January 1 of that year, perhaps?
John wrote: "If multiple pairs of date boxes showing up there should be an X beside at least one them. Just click on it and should remove them."Yeah, its just a hassle because the multiple date bars are populated after the reviews get published, so it seems you sometimes need to go back and delete one of them. ;)
Yeah -- all the updates say my friends and I are reading a book for the second or third time when we're not. It's getting annoying. At least it's not just me.
Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe this announcement is more about having an actual number of times read in the book data, but I've been doing this for quite a while. I'm on my third read of The Dresden Files, and I've had no problem putting it in my currently reading shelf. Any time I've reread a book, i move it to Currently Reading, then back to Read when I'm done, and it's counted toward my Reading Challenge total. The tracking of the number of rereads is less important to me than just making sure it goes toward my Challenge total. But it is a nice to have.
Monica wrote: "Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe this announcement is more about having an actual number of times read in the book data, but I've been doing this for quite a while. I'm on my third read of The..."Sure, it would count toward the current reading challenge, but wouldn't it be removed from the previous reading challenge in which it was counted the previous time?
Shouldn't have as you were adding data. There are times where I accidentally added a book as "read", changed it to "to read" but my reading progress said I had read the book and now I wanted to read t again.
It never occurred to me that it might subtract from a previous Challenge, but I think it would have to be a pretty complex setup to do that anyway. Regardless, I wasn't worried about past Challenges, but now I don't have to!
Thankfully rereading is doing what it's supposed to do here. I haven't seen the glitch a lot of people on here see. All my books have one read except those I've reread, and those are marked correctly with the right dates and number of reads. Though I'm in Europe, so I'm wondering if this glitch is random, or if it affects servers in specific countries/continents?
I'm in Europe as well and had the glitch for a while, but now I don't get any duplicate dates anymore. I do, however, see it with other people in my update feed, so it's probably pretty random in who it affects. Probably has something to do with how you mark the book, too (whether you mark it as read from your to read shelf or add a completely new book).
I know I've in the past (before re-reading launched) mistakenly marked an unshelved book as "read" and then corrected it to "to-read" afterwards. All of those books ended up with a read count of 2 (unsurprisingly) and I had to fix them. Might not be a glitch at all.
My all-time favorite novel is Jane Eyre. I first read it in 8th grade. My copy was a short, thick copy issued by Scholastic that my mother bought for me through the school Scholastic newsletter. She and I both read and reread that copy many times. The cover is loose. I still have it even though I purchased a newer printing and have an antique hardback as well.
God I've been waiting for this feature forever but now it's too little too late, I don't really have the time to read new books anymore, let alone reread ones I've already read.
THANK YOU!! I remember messaging asking for this YEARS ago!!
This has been bugging me for years!!! Thanks!!
Thank you! I have also been wanting this for quite some time! Love love love GOODREADS!
Thank you so much! I am a chronic rereader so this function has been on my Wishlist for ages.
I have been doing this by changing the date (fine) but also adding to a re-reads shelf - will you be adding a shelf or just leaving it on the main read shelf?
My favorite rereads are "Out of My Mind", "To Kill a Mockingbird ", "Wonder", "Pride and Prejudice", and "Great Expectations ".
Yes!! We've been needing this feature! Thank you!
Weird, I've always used this functionality since I started on Goodreads... books I've read I simply marked as currently reading again and it tracked it as part of my challenge...
Thank you for adding this feature! I was planning to revisit so many of my favorite books (reread 2 books so far), so it sounds fair to include a reread in the reading challenge. I appreciate your efforts to improve Goodreads <3
I have reread TFIOS, Jane Eyre, The Shack, Firefly Lane and A Dogs Purpose.
With a continuing series I often re-read the previous books to reconnect with the ongoing stories just prior to a new additions' release. Last year I re-read the entire "In Death" series by Nora Roberts but I have probably re-read the "The Plus One Chronicles" by Jennifer Lyon the most - have lost count but it is probably close to 10 time.
Excellent - I have wanted my rereads to count toward the challenge - thank you so much
Can you update your review for different editions of the book? My review for reading a softcover edition may be different from listening to a book on audio. If an audio reader is good, I like to note that in the review.
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (4 times)Killer Angels (3 times)
The Known World by Edward P Jones (twice)
The Paperboy (twice)
All great reads!
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Stig Larsson and all his books!
Thank you! I am rereading Louise Penny. Just wonderful!
Was just trying to decide if I should add a "Re-read" bookshelf to my account when got email about new feature. As I get older, I definitely get more out of some books, seeing and understanding things with my increasing experience and understanding. I've got (in "real" life) several physical bookcases devoted to my favorite re-reads. Won't list them all, but not counting authors already shown among top Good Re-Reads (to encourage discovery by more members: Rosemary Sutcliff's Eagle of the Ninth trilogy, Edward Eager, Elizabeth Enright, Maud Hart Lovelace, Grace Livingston Hill are among my comfort read go-to's.
Recent re-reads include Ruth Downie Roman mysteries and Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series.
Re-reading is something I've recommended to others for years (many are amazed at the concept, but I've quoted Oscar Wilde to show it isn't new with me). Especially good idea when it's a Book Club pick--I'm trying to find a new group as local ones I went to have (in one case literally) died out ;(
Hope others around the world will be encouraged to meet and share their insights gained from re-reading!
Stacey wrote: "Can you update your review for different editions of the book? My review for reading a softcover edition may be different from listening to a book on audio. If an audio reader is good, I like to note that in the review."Yes, reviewing different editions was possible before this update too.
"Gone With The Wind" is my number one reread. I still love this book almost fifty years later.
OMG yay!! Now to go back and remember which I had to move between years :)
Finally!! Thanks so much!I re-read Tijan's books all the time! And C.L. Stone's Academy-Ghost Bird series every time a new book comes out! Love those books!
WOOT WOOT!! This is amazing! Thank you Goodreads for making this happen. Rereading is one of my most favourite things <3
Thanks to all of you for sharing your input and excitement about rereading! We are closing this thread for further comments as it will no longer be monitored. If you have a question or concern with rereading (or anything on Goodreads!), please feel free to email us at support [at] goodreads [dot] com.Happy rereading!
